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PLAY! by Sephora is a monthly beauty and makeup subscription box. Each month, Sephora sends you a mix of six samples (including cosmetics, haircare, skincare, fragrances, and other beauty products) personalized to match your preferences and a PLAY! BOOK of tips and tricks.
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Really not that excited by this one. The Primerizer will be interesting to try, but other than that I’m kind of bleh on it.
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Mary K
Got this today and not the least bit excited & do miss the perfume sample. I dunno why I keep subbing to this box after so many letdowns. I think their waitlist is a very effective marketing strategy bc it keeps me thinking I *can’t* cancel or I’ll never get back on. Anyone else? 😀
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autumn
Yeah I don’t understand why we don’t get the perfume sample anymore
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Jennifer
I don’t mind getting hair products or perfume as an extra but I really hope they rotate it every month. I have a ton of perfume but I like getting the little samples I can throw in my purse.
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mnablondie
Box 036 spoiler: After obsessively stalking this site for spoilers for my box, I finally broke down and called customer service. According to them, Box 036 will contain the GlamGlow cleanser, the Clinique Pep Start eye cream, the Olehenriksen mask, the Smashbox Primerizer, the Lancome mascara base, and the Briogeo hair mask. Personally, I’m most excited to try the mascara booster! I’ll do anything to make my lashes longer and lusher!
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Jen
You should ask what’s in #77 too!! 😂 lol
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sara
I’m 036 and didn’t get too happy when I read your spoiler. Good grief, another face primer???? and MORE Briogeo? I would have loved the Nars lippie. I’m going to have major envy for whoever gets that. And on that note, since envy is not much fun or good for me, I’m canceling my Play!. I just can’t handle getting the variations that I don’t care for and missing out on the variation items I covet. Back to Allure I go–crossing my fingers they don’t do any more variations like their November ‘6 variations and counting’ fiasco!
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de
Thank you for your info. I have 036 too and that’s not very exciting. the eye cream that everyone is getting is the only thing in there that I’m remotely interested in trying, everything else seems like it’s something I’ve already tried or so similar that I’m just meh about it all.
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Heather
Thanks for the info re. box 036. Sounds good, except I was really hoping for a perfume sample. But I’d like to try a mascara booster, too.
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Miriam
WOW! I am planned to get this box for my shipment and I have to say, this is the BEST Play box yet. I love every product in this box. Way to go Sephora! SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!
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Amy
Looks like CLINIQUE Pep-Start Eye Cream is the new Smashbox Primer, a.k.a. that product they love to keep giving us to throw away. Thrilled to be getting the floral toner, wish I got the mini blush to go with the mini shadow from last month. I wish we could blacklist brands that don’t agree with us, or choose natural only.
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Melissa B.
Soooo disappointed! I don’t like that they are doing away with everyone getting perfume. Can’t we have the option to get it monthly if we want it? I might use 3 things out of this box, and the bonus item of the shampoo & conditioner is NOT one of them. Such a miss for me!
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Brigette
I thought the same about the monthly perfume sample.. I love trying new perfume. I’ve been reading the reviews and looking at the spoilers for months, trying to decide if I REALLY want to subscribe to Play. Now that I see they are changing it up with the perfume 🙁 , I’m going to sub to Allure instead (at least for January) and just continue my ipsy sub, going on 3.5 years.
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Jules
Does anyone ever notice that their box number changes? I started with 28 now its 85…which so far im not mad about since 28 had a lot of products I dont need and won’t use. Let’s hope 85 is better suited for me.
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ouizy
yes this has happened to me before! I posted about it also a while back– not sure if anyone believed me until now!
I wish Sephora wouldn’t do that.
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Janis
Looks like this is my box.. I’m okay with this! I appreciate the lack of perfume sample (for once) and I’ll use everything in this box.
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Rugby
I love this particular one. I hope I get it.
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Redhed36
I am excited for my bag, well not the bag itself. I love primers. If only I had known I was receiving face and mascara primer I wouldn’t have selected the Birchbox curated box which comes with face and mascara primer. oops the more the merrier I guess. I also love Lacome. I hope I get the CC cream bonus.
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Layla
I subbed for the Sephora makeup samples. I don’t mind haircare but the skincare is way too much I don’t understand how to use most of it and what it’s for.
All the redundant skincare ends up in a box to never be heard from again. I think it’s time to look for a replacement sub.
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Michelle Bross
I love the skincare! That’s the main reason I subbed! I’m dropping Birchbox and Ipsy way to many no name products for me.
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adncl
Try Ipsy, it’s way more makeup than Play or Birchbox! I get maybe 1 skin or hair care product in my bag of five samples, and sometimes not even that.
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CM
Already unsubscribed for next month and I’m glad. There are very few things about here that I’m remotely excited about (probably none of which will be in my box. Womp.).
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Cara
I unsubbed after seeing this month as well. I get BoxyCharm and it’s definitely a better value as you get full size products, everything in the Play boxes can be gotten for free at Sephora stores, but I rarely keep more than 1-2 products each month. Subscription boxes are good in theory but makeup, skincare and fragrance is so personal that just hoping for good stuff in a mystery box is basically a recipe for disappointment.
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b
I disagree that everything in the Play boxes can be gotten for free at Sephora. You can have the Reps to make samples for you from testers, but that’s not the same as getting a never opened deluxe size “sample.” I’m someone who doesn’t like to get samples from testers, and none of the Sephora stores I’ve been to give out pre-packaged never opened deluxe samples, unless you are redeeming your Insider points. With that said, I haven’t been thrilled with the boxes for quite a while now, and I’m been subscribing since the first box 3 years ago. The first year was pretty great! But I’ve heard that’s how most beauty subs are — really great to begin with, and then go downhill.
Charlie
these boxes have gotten worse.
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shannon
I just looked and was disappointed to find out that this is my box. The only makeup item is mascara primer, which as a contact lens wearer, I hate. I am happy about the caviar haircare since I love the brand, however, the foil packets don’t have a lot of product. This box is a fail, Sephora can do much better.
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Bri
This is my second box and I’m kind of bummed about it. My first box was great, but this is a little lack-luster. I was under the impression that the “bonus” item was supposed to be perfume, which is why I switched from Ipsy for PLAY.
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Katie Sun
I got pretty much everything I didn’t want 🙁
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Melissa B.
It used to be perfume which I LOVED. Guess I was in the minority because on the video they said they are switching the bonus because of feedback. I am super picky about hair care, and I use one line only. I’ll be giving my hair care away & will miss perfumes every month! That was always the true surprise to me & I always looked forward to the perfume because I found ones I LOVED that I would never have tried, and could rule out ones I thought I might like, but end up not working for me. Disappointed for sure!
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MalibuChrissy
What?!? They’re doing away with the perfume samples?!? But that is my favorite part- I get to test out new perfumes every month, and have found some amazing ones I would have never tried on my own accord! I’d much rather have a perfume sample than a foil packet of some random product.
sara
I loved the perfume samples too. I’d rather get that any day than a foil shampoo that won’t cover 1/5 of my long hair.
Ali
Rarely get box envy, but I love this box!
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Michelle Bross
I want the box with the fresh toner! I almost bought it yesterday. Fingers crossed.
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Jen
I wanted the fresh toner too and I got box 85 so it’s not in there! My daughter gets 77 so I’m hoping she gets it and we can do a swap. I hope you end up getting it.
K
This is my box, not too happy. Why would there be 2 primer products in the same box?? Seriously the makeup in this box is a smashbox primer and a lash primer! Would have been fine if it was one primer product and then a colored makeup item.. like the blush or a lip product. Quite poor choice in my opinion. Also, I have dry skin so why am I getting the glam glow oily skin cleanser if they supposedly give you items based on your profile… because they don’t.
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Cris
I like how the Clinique eye cream that’s in every box is a repeat item from a past box rather than a new exciting product lol…. Loving all the other skincare items, though!
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CM
The Perricone MD is also a repeat from two months ago, and I think the Fresh toner is a repeat from last month, too. Ugh.
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Audra
Omg! I know! I was like, I just got the perricone MD cloud cream two months ago! Does that mean I’m going to get it again, since they picked it out once already for me??? I’m sure I’ll get something equally disappointing!
Luna
This will be my first box after having not been subscribed since last Spring, and like my past boxes, I’m pretty pleased with what I’ll be getting. I finally remembered to check to see what box # I am, and I’m 028. I’m looking forward to getting everything except the primer since I think it’s a spray primer (it’d be nice if I was wrong), but that can easily be gifted. Besides the mascara primer, everything else will be new to me, so it’s a win for me. 🙂
I think that is a pump, at least in the full size I’m pretty sure it is.
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Luna
Thanks so much for letting me know. 🙂 If it’s in a pump, I’ll definitely keep it. For some reason I got it in my head that it was one of those makeup primers that are sprayed on the face, which I don’t like.
K
I would like every possible skincare and makeup item! I hope not to get the repeat highlighter cream or anastasia gloss because I already have them but I like them too! Not sure on the foil samples but willing to try. This is a great start to the new year and my second year of this box. I just quit Birchbox because this box has such better quality items though Birchbox may come up with more interesting and brighter makeup items.
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kate
After subscribing for two years I cancelled last year. Re-upped to see if anything had changed for the better. Box 028 is mine and there is not ONE SINGLE PRODUCT that is of interest to me. No lovely lipstick in here, no interesting moisturizer, just more of the same old haircare from a brand they have sent me many times, and more primers. I am DONE.
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Laura
Anything has to be better for me than last month’s disaster. I gave the entire thing away. Fingers crossed for box 036 …
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Kearstin Shaw
That’s my box, too! What is the deal with no spoilers?! We used to get them by the 10th for sure and the last couple of months, nothing. I’m glad this isn’t my box, though. It wasn’t exciting to me 😬
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kayla
Does anyone know if i subscribe today if i will get this box?
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Molly
You will not, if you subscribe today you will get the February box. Sephora charges you between the 1st and the 4th of every month and then sends out the boxes based on that.
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Ali
This month will be my first Play box and if I checked right I’m getting #101 which I haven’t seen mentioned yet in the comments.
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